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Thales of Miletus – 6th Century B.C. – Named by Aristotle as the founder of Western philosophy, although no contemporary sources exist, and none of his writings survive. Aristotle claims that he was the first to suggest a material substratum for the universe, namely water. William Gilbert (1540-1603) – Gilbert was an English physician to Elizabeth I and James I. He was the first to use the terms magnetic pole and electrical forces, and suggested that the Earth’s magnetism could be explained if the Earth was likened to a huge bar magnet. Robert Boyle (1627-1691) – Boyle was an Irish scientist who founded the study of chemistry as a separate science and aimed to improve natural knowledge by experiment. He formulated Boyle’s law: a volume of gas at a constant temperature varies inversely with the pressure applied to the gas. He showed that air is absorbed in the process of combustion and that only one part of air, oxygen, is necessary for breathing. C.F. de C. Du Fay (1667-1736) - Distinguished different types of electrical effects produced by rubbing glass and resins. Du Fay called the two types vitreous and resinous. Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692-1761) - Dutch physicist Pieter van Musschenbroek discovered "capacitance".
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